Planetside 2 Call To Arms This Sunday!

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We’re calling all RPS soldiers to the front on Sunday 16th from 7pm UK on Miller. Planetside 2 is free-to-play, so this is an ideal time to get acquainted, and see what happens when several hundred RPS readers are deployed in the same theatre of laser-death.

Details below.

Here’s our community-made video on how to get sorted for the call to arms:

12 in the afternoon? 11 maybe? You could always Bing it to check. As for lag, might be a good idea to hop on the server and see for yourself! :) I didn’t find it too bad coming from Atlantic Canada. The only lag I got was from the frames dipping so low when around a lot of people.

DOWNLOAD, INSTALL and RUN the game at least once BEFORE the event. Otherwise, you will spend the entire Call to Arms looking at an ugly download bar.
That also applies to people who haven’t played recently : Run it before to get the updates.

PS2 is still pretty poor at multi-threading, so needs a fast clock speed rather than lots of cores, as it simply loads about 50% per core. Apparently it might be fixed some time, but until then, who knows.

One of the benefits of Planetside 2 going to the PS4 is that they’ll retrofit the better multi threading to the PC version. In the mean time, even modest overclocks can make the world of difference. My i7 920 went from 30 fps and usually dipping way down to a constant 40+ fps after a 1ghz overclock.

I really want to play but – and this might sound ridiculous – I cannot play the game with its ridiculous vaseline smear. I’ve seen Let’s Plays on YouTube which look absolutely gorgeous, but no matter what settings I mess around with it looks ugly as hell.

Sweet! I just got my computer back up and running and was dissapointed to see the amount of RPS folk on Neverwinter had dropped considerably, so was looking forward to giving this a shot. I played a bit today, but as someone else mentioned my FPS went down to about 5 whenever a fight broke out. As such I’ve been spending my time becoming rather adept (I think) at healing people. It’s kind of fun hiding in a small shack holding off a bunch of tanks and then making a mad dash out to revive someone who had been shot down trying to make it to our hideout!

Oh man, I’ve wanted to participate in one of these for a while. However, I’ve been testing my ping to the Miller server and the results are… not encouraging. (average 350ms ping with occasional spikes to over 700, using the command-line ping tool) Considering that the call to arms is taking place at a time when everyone else in my house is likely to be using bandwidth for Netflix &c., I’m pretty sure that my connection is going to be hilariously terrible when the time comes. So, I guess I’m wondering if it’d be a bad idea for me to join in on this? I don’t want to ruin anyone else’s enjoyment by lag-teleporting around, not being able to hit anything, and generally not being able to pull my own weight, connection-wise, so… yeah. I’d really like to get involved with this, but not if I’ll be a burden on the fine folk of the RPS community with my (presumably) excessive lag.

Then again, Planetside 2 could have incredible lag compensation / the ping figures I’ve got aren’t really problematic / people aren’t as bothered by laggy players as I seem to think, and I’m worrying about nothing. But in the past, I’ve had difficulty playing PS2 because of my connection and I guess I don’t want to lessen anyone else’s experience, somehow, if that makes sense.

Had a blast playing PS2 for pretty much my fiirst time tonight – RPSers were all great fun and very tolerant of a newbie that was more likely to accidentally kill them than any foes, as well as get lost every other second. Special thanks to Sinomatic for her very friendly welcome, even though I was well past 2 hours late for the meet. I’ll definitely be making a bit of time for this again in the future! Next time I might even have time to chat a bit more if I can manage to not be so clueless with everything else!

I have to agree..it sounds pretty much like my experience. Running around one way thinking “Alright! Time to help!” And then realizing that I should have gone the other way instead.. But it was still a load of fun! I just think the game itself is kind of hard to understand. After 3 days or so of playing I still don’t fully understand what’s going on! A generator is about to blow up..now its safe..for some reason we just lost the area..now I have a suicide countdown..some people are fighting in a locked room..

Anyway..I think I learned more tonight than just playing by myself the past few days, and I also really appreciate Sinomatic taking the time to greet everyone. I felt so bad when I came on JUST as she finished explaining everything and then had to do it all over again for me!

Same here. Thoroughly enjoyed it last night, I’ve played PS2 a bit before but this is the first time I’ve really got the point of it. Red platoons mass infantry assault of Blackshard mine or the stallwart defence of crux were particular highpoints for me. Cant wait for the next call to arms!

+1 on the “It was my first time and it was brilliant”. and +1 on how brilliant Sinomatic was in gracefully handling my “Um, I haven’t used this mic before, can you hear me…?” newbieness.

Being aboard one of the flock of Galaxy dropships descending on, err, somewhere near NC Warpgate was pretty special, but the highlight was pushing into Sungrey Amp Station at sunset. Night fell, the battle went neon technicolour, I started hitting a (short-lived) killstreak stride, it all came together. Even the oldies were chattering about how they hadn’t seen such an epic battle in months. It was special.